What’s wrong with the media? While the economy continues on its downhill slide, they give major airtime to McCain and Palin’s negative attacks on Barack Obama and call them “McCain’s only chance of winning.”

Complete with a crowd assembled from the radical right to give them cover, McCain and Palin made a joint appearance yesterday stoking the age-old fires of racial politics that we have witnessed in this country since the “Southern Strategy” launched by Richard Nixon. Along with those who introduced them from the stage, they have peppered their rallies with “regular citizens” who somehow summon up the courage to become public speakers and “plea” with McCain to do something to expose and defeat the “evil” Obama.

Wisconsin Town Hall Mtg.

Mrs. Jack, a pretty smart cookie who is reticent about jumping to her feet during political rallies to give speeches, pointed out her belief that these people are ringers. I must admit that I didn’t think about it in that way. I just thought they were partisan, racist crazies. But as she put forth her take on what we were seeing this morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, I realized that she might just have something. These two guys – one white and one black – did seem extremely articulate, and were placed strategically in the crowd so that they would be in the camera shots without having to cut away from McCain. Very interesting!

Joe Scarborough, MSNBC

While Joe Scarborough took issue with the criticism of pundits and Democratic spokespersons who dared to call McCain on this shameful aspect of his desperate campaign, I strongly disagree. Just like Morning Joe, I grew up in THE SOUTH, and know what the people are like down here. And I also have met a lot of rural Midwesterners who have moved down here in the 80’s, and they fit right in with the redneck racists who already live here. Why? I think it is because they blame black Americans for the loss of their jobs back home. They feel that through the affirmative action laws that came into being in the early days of the civil rights movement that they have been put at a disadvantage by their own government, and they are VERY angry about it. I understand their pain. I’m one of them. However, they are being illogical in that they don’t recognize how a bunch of Republican politicians have tapped into their pain and made promises that they haven’t delivered on during a six-year period when they could have. Simply, while they are mad at black America and Democrats who sympathized with the truly painful experience black people were going through, they don’t see that the Republicans they expect to champion their cause are merely paying lip service in election years to get their votes.

As John McCain and Sarah Palin mine the depths of hate and social division in our country, all the while touting their willingness to “work across the aisle” with Democrats, they continue to bring about an even deeper divide than the one we had to begin with. After all, what have the Republicans really done for the Religious Right? Every time I make the trip into Houston to go to the VA Hospital, I see the large signs of adult video stores alongside the highway. Despite the promise of moral concern on the part of Republicans, here in a Republican State and in Harris County, a Republican-controlled county, and under the very nose of a Republican President from this very state, nothing has been done to address the calls of the Religious Right in our area to shut these places down.

Graham and McCain

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m a lefty and believe that people have the right or option to either pull off the highway and go inside these businesses or not. The freedom-loving Religious Right doesn’t see it that way at all. They always say they don’t want the government on their backs, but they do want it in everyone’s bedroom and to subscribe to a certain religious ideal – theirs! But they, too, have been used by the cynical Republican politicians who year after year claim to care about their issues and do nothing. A couple of amusing side notes to all of this: Phil Graham – Senator McCain’s former economic advisor who called us all a bunch of whiners – is widely known to have owned a chain of adult video stores in our state, and Tom DeLay – the upholder of morality itself – made several trips to Taiwan where he met with and dined with and did who-knows-what-else with a known trafficker in the underage Asian sex trade. All the while these two pillars of the Right have been trashing Democrats as an immoral bunch of dilettantes. How hypocritical!

French vs. Palin

Speaking of Republicans who say one thing and then do another, I’m looking forward to the release of the report on Troopergate today to see what Ms. Sarah Palin has been doing in the Governor’s Mansion in Alaska. I will withhold further comment until it is released; however, I do find it interesting that the McCain campaign has released its own report on the matter early this morning. I guess they are hoping people will be confused as to which of the two reports is the REAL one.

All that being said, keep fighting the good fight. We have just over three weeks to go, and it’s going to seem like a long time before we hear that operatic lady sing.

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You sure are right, playing politics as usual is there only chance of winning, because they stand no chance whatsoever at winning the White House based no any issue. One issue that they could win could be on the surge. That is because most voters are low info voters, and if they can get across that Obama was wrong, on something, anything, it will change people’s perspective. Lucky us they aren’t talking about it, even though I think the surge hasn’t done anything other than stop violence. Nice blog by the way, was searching for a liberal blog, and finally found one.

It riles me up, too. I’m not altogether sure they are “no information” voters as much as they are misinformed or plain old brainwashed by FOX PROPAGANDA Network and the pastors and lay leaders at their churches. I see a lot of that down here in rural Texas and among my family members up in Oklahoma. They are always quoting what they hear on FOX PROPAGANDA as fact, and the same thing goes for what they are hearing from the pulpit.

What John McCain got a good look at this past week and especially yesterday was the dark side of the Republican base that Sarah Palin has brought out. The cynical Republican politicians have been pandering to this group of radical right-wing nuts for years while denying their existence. Well, John McCain along with millions of independent voters got a good look at these people and were rightfully appalled by what they saw. It’s about time that someone on the Republican side of the aisle stood up to the tyranny that these people represent.

Well I guess my perspective is different from where I am sitting. I am a born and bred New Yorker, raised in Brooklyn who now lives in Central NJ. No matter how much I travel around this country, I still can’t get used to the limited vision that most of middle America has. I have really never been privy to some of the extreme and radical right wing nuts. I have however seen much in the way of racial tensions having lived through a lot of racial issues in the 60’s and 70’s.

On another topic, there is an actual video and interview floating around of the lady who said the Obama was an Arab to John McCain the other night. Here is the link.

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* Definition of “bullshit”

In Texas where many people come from a history of farming or ranching, we have often been known to holler "Bullshit!" This is because we all know that if you're going to buy a load of manure to spread on your fields, you really want to make sure the manure comes from cows. Cow manure replenishes the soil and makes things grow.
But if you're not careful, a cagey rancher may substitute a load of bull manure. Bull manure is completely worthless as fertilizer. It has no nutritive value as far as your fields are concerned. So if you paid for cow manure, but you got bull manure instead, you got ripped off!
Thus, "Bullshit" is another way, albeit rude, of saying "worthless." When someone hollers "Bullshit!", they are accusing someone of ripping them off or lying to them.